Longitudinal studies of web change are needed to assess the stability of webometric statistics and this paper forms part of an on-going longitudinal study of three national academic web spaces. It examines the relationship between university inlinks and research productivity over time and identifies reasons for individual universities experiencing significant increases and decreases in inlinks ...

Since the mid-1990s has emerged a new research field, webometrics, investigating the nature and properties of the Web drawing on modern informetric methodologies. The article attempts to point to selected areas of webometric research that demonstrate interesting progress and space for development as well as to some currently less promising areas. Recent investigations of search engine coverage ...

Purpose: Social media is among the most important digital platforms that bring individuals and institutions together. In age, universities use social to share news updates about institution, research, teaching, activities. Perhaps, one of critical indicators success in university account management process might be number followers. Hence, this study examined whether there a relationship betwee...

Abstract Scientific software is a fundamental player in modern science, participating all stages of scientific knowledge production. Software occasionally supports the development trivial tasks, while at other instances it determines procedures, methods, protocols, results, or conclusions related with work. The growing relevance as research product value its own has triggered quantitative scien...

this study deals with the visibility, influence rate of diffrent links in virtual universities websites. the current community research is consisted of websites of 21 non medical universities websites and 8 websites of iran medical universities. the websites have been retrieved by the use of searchin and goolge webometic tools and are downloaded on personal computers to analyze their links. the...

O presente estudo objetiva analisar os indicadores altmétricos nos periódicos brasileiros em Ciência da Informação. De caráter descritivo e de natureza qualiquantitativa, utilizou, enquanto método, a revisão literatura e, técnica, coleta dados via API Altmetric do Mendeley com o software Webometric Analyst. Como resultado, verificou-se que revista Transinformação apresentou maior número artigos...

In recent years, the Internet has been experiencing a huge boom in social networking, blogging and discussing on online forums. With the growing popularity of these communication channels, there have been arising a large number of comments on various topics from many different types of users. Such information source is not only useful for academic research, but also for commercial companies tha...